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This fails:
as does

Here is a workaround. Escape the ; as \;
It seems to work for me.

Other workarounds:

1. Prefix with backslash, eg Yes, this works on Windows, where backslash isn't the escape.

2. Put the pango string in a file, at @ it, eg put ... into pangoamp.txt, then:
This is the problem cause:

pango.c function ReadPANGOImage() takes the string after "pango:", which is a kind-of filename.

It parses that string with property.c InterpretImageProperties(). This translates "\n" into newline, and other translations, including "&" to "&".

So a string with "&" will passed to pango with a naked "&".

That's the problem. I don't know the most appropriate cure.

note that to avoid the weird handling of html entities and backslashes you can also pipe the text via stdin: